EPA regulations are not just for coal anymore, emphasizing that fracked methane pipelines are not the answer:
how about we go straight to sun and wind power?
Today we’ll see how serious president Obama is about methane emissions.
Meanwhile, there’s already
an opportunity to comment on an EPA methane rule proposed in December.

There’s still time to comment on one methane rule proposed by the EPA,
which was partly prompted by outside comment to start with.
So far, the only comments are by fossil fuel industry consortiums.
Why should they have all the fun?
Here’s how to post your own comments.
And there may be
another rule announced today.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing revisions and
confidentiality determinations for the petroleum and natural gas
systems source category of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. In
particular, the EPA is proposing to add calculation methods and
reporting requirements for greenhouse gas emissions from gathering
and boosting facilities, completions and workovers of oil wells with
hydraulic fracturing, and blowdowns of natural gas transmission
pipelines between compressor stations. The EPA is also proposing
well identification reporting requirements to improve the EPA’s
ability to verify reported data and enhance transparency. This
action also proposes confidentiality determinations for new data
elements contained in these proposed amendments.

Marcellus Shale fracked methane through Atlantic Sunrise to Transco to Sabal Trail to TECO to Jaxport for LNG export?
And maybe an explanation for why Sempra Energy, like Spectra Energy,
donated to both GA Gov. Nathan Deal’s and AL Gov. Robert Bentley’s
re-election campaigns.
Sempra apparently wants to export Marcellus Shale gas from Jacksonville,
and Sabal Trail is the proposed conduit for that through Alabama and Georgia
to Florida.

Our local government officials have listened to our outcry and
organized a public meeting featuring but not limited to Spectra, EPA
and Gov Deal reps. Please join us, lets show them we are a UNITED
Dougherty county!!

The Dougherty County and Albany City commissions will hold a joint
meeting Monday at 10 a.m. to discuss the pipeline. Federal and state
officials, as well as representatives of Spectra Energy, which is
building the pipeline, are expected to attend.

“Putting a pipeline anywhere near in a sinkhole-laden environment could be horrific if something went wrong,” said Our Santa Fe River President Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, “Our organization is still very much opposed.”

EPA is holding public hearings on its
proposed Clean Power Plan
next week, 29-30 July 2014, in Atlanta.
Maybe you want to mention shifting from coal to “natural” gas
(fracked methane) actually may make matters worse here,
with proposed pipelines like the hazardous 36-inch monsters Sabal Trail through south Georgia
and Renaissance through north Georgia, on environmentally damaging hundred-foot rights of way through our fields, forests, wetlands, and under our rivers.
so EPA needs to go further.
You can also
comment online until 16 October 2014 on Docket ID EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602.
And you can express your opinion outside with Georgia Sierra Club
at the Atlanta Climate Rally Tuesday at high noon.
And remember,
mercury in the Alapaha River probably comes from coal Plant Scherer,
near Macon, Georgia.

Call the pipeline company’s bluff, says one landowner, and
and at worst you’ll get a much better offer.
At best, if enough people do it, the pipeline will become
too expensive and won’t get built.
Like the Texians at Gonzales, the Georgians at Fort Morris,
and the Spartans at Thermopylae, we can stop an invasion,
this time by peaceful means.
Come and Take It!